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Facebook has refused to compensate European users who were caught up in the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The social network admitted that the incident, in which the personal information of 87 million people was harvested and sold to a political campaign agency, was “clearly a breach of trust”. However, as no bank account details, …

The traditional model of collecting user data is hurting us all. Let’s change it, with blockchain. May 25, 2018 7 min read The Cambridge Analytica scandal, as CNBC reported, marked an important tipping point in how many of us view tech giants like Facebook and Google. Related: How to Tell if Cambridge …

Mark Zuckerberg has agreed to give evidence to the European Parliament, despite the Facebook founder repeatedly rejecting requests from UK MPs to be submit to questioning. In his third appearance in front of politicians since the Cambridge Analytica data scandal hit the tech giant, having attended two sessions in the …

Use your own customer data about your customers to scale and grow. May 15, 2018 6 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. In the digital era, data is as good as currency. With more and more companies getting their edge from the ability to collect unique …

Facebook has suspended 200 apps that harvested user data in the wake of the privacy scandal surrounding Cambridge Analytica, the political consultancy that gathered data on tens of millions of Facebook users. The social network is now working out whether these apps misused user data and plans to alert Facebook users if they …

Stay in the know in 60 seconds. May 4, 2018 1 min read Tesla stock prices fell as much as 7 percent on Thursday. Elon Musk and company investors are still butting heads after he called their questions boring and boneheaded on Wednesday’s earnings call. In social media news, embattled political data …

We still don’t have an idea of how far this really goes. May 3, 2018 5 min read This story originally appeared on Engadget Cambridge Analytica is closing up shop. Company executives continue to deny any wrongdoing and insist that the shuttering of both it and parent company SCL is due …

Several directors and executives of Cambridge Analytica, the British political consultancy that announced it was shutting down on Wednesday night, have established new corporate entities in recent months. Filings show that Alexander Tayler and Julian Wheatland, who had both ran Cambridge Analytica before it began insolvency proceedings, are listed as directors of …

Facebook has endured a wave of criticism from regulators, politicians and its users in recent weeks after revelations about how it protects people’s data. On Tuesday, the social network will face a different but equally-hostile crowd – the app developers that have for years relied on that data. On Tuesday evening …

The Cambridge University academic at the centre of the Facebook data scandal has claimed that the social network regularly handed its user data to academics without questioning how it would be used. Dr Aleksandr Kogan, who created an app that harvested 87 million Facebook users’ data, which was then allegedly used in …